Players don't come cheap nowadays but there's good news this summer with a host of top quality players available on Bosman free transfers.

When the transfer window opens on July 1, bargain-hunting clubs will lock horns doing battle for the best of the freebies. And if your club plays its cards right you could sign up an entire new strike-force without paying out a single penny in transfer fees.

Demba Ba was one of the best free transfer striker signings in the Premier League era when he left West Ham for Newcastle and went on to score 29 goals in just 54 games before a big money move to Chelsea.

Could your club pull off something similar this summer? Here we take a look at the best strikers available for nothing when their contracts expire come the end of the season.

Ghanian Andre Ayew is a player in his prime at 25 years old and is said to be at the centre of a 10-team race for his signature. According to the Mirror, West Ham, Liverpool and Swansea are in the mix for the winger-cum-striker whose contract at Ligue 1 side Marseille is coming to an end. He has seven goals from 21 games this season.

It wasn't Burnley's relegation that decided Danny Ings' future at the club. The fact he is available on a free transfer has been the worst kept secret in the Premier League this season.

The 22-year-old is hot property this summer after notching 12 goals in his debut Premier League season and has been linked with Manchester United, Liverpool and David Moyes' Real Sociedad by sources including TalkSPORT.

Another quality striker whose agent's phone will be red hot this summer is Marseille's Andre-Pierre Gignac.

Linked with a move to West Ham for months by papers such as Metro, the 29-year-old is a powerful striker who is coming off the back of his best ever season during which he has netted 18 goals - one every other game.

He also has one goal in two games for the French national side this season and has provided a couple of assists.

Everyone needs a supersub and could that role be filled by another striker of proven pedigree in the shape of former Spurs, Villa and Sunderland striker Darren Bent?

The ex-Ipswich Town man's contract with Villa expires in the summer but after a difficult few years in the Midlands, Bent seems to have rediscovered the goalscoring touch that once saw him command a £24 million transfer fee with 12 goals in 17 games while on loan at Championship Derby County.